Install GitVersion on Ubuntu 16.04: a step-by-step guide

One of Red River’s core tenets is our iterative, continuous deployment of projects. As a part of this process, we recently had to provision a new Linux build server and install GitVersion on it. I could not find a clear guide on how to do this so I’ve put together a step-by-step that I hope might make it simpler for others in the future.

Step 1 – Install Mono + Dependencies

GitVersion is written in C# .NET and as such requires the Mono framework in order to run on Linux.